(2702) Batrakov

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Asteroid
(2702) Batrakov
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  April 27, 2019 ( JD 2,458,600.5)
Orbit type Outer main belt
Major semi-axis 3.4089 ± 0.0002  AU
eccentricity 0.1004 ± 0.0004
Perihelion - aphelion 3.0668 ± 0.0013 AU - 3.7511 ± 0.0003 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 1.6161 ± 0.0423 °
Length of the ascending node 243.1913 ± 0.0001 °
Argument of the periapsis 323.6452 ± 0.0001 °
Time of passage of the perihelion July 30, 2020
Sidereal period 6.29 a ± 0.2389 d
Physical Properties
Medium diameter 24.927 ± 0.233 km
Albedo 0.065 ± 0.007
Rotation period 9.15 h
Absolute brightness 11.7 mag
history
Explorer Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union/ Lyudmyla ShuravlowaUkraine Soviet Socialist RepublicUkrainian SSR 
Date of discovery September 26, 1978
Another name 1978 SZ 2 ; 1971 QU 2 ; 1972 TU 3 ; 1976 JQ 1 ; 1981 AO 1
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(2702) Batrakov ( 1978 SZ 2 ; 1971 QU 2 ; 1972 TU 3 ; 1976 JQ 1 ; 1981 AO 1 ) is an approximately 25 kilometers large asteroid of the main outer belt , which was released on September 26, 1978 by the Ukrainian (then: Soviet Union ) Astronomer Lyudmyla Shuravlowa was discovered at the Crimean Observatory (Nautschnyj branch) on the Crimean peninsula ( IAU code 095).

designation

(2702) Batrakov was named after the Soviet- Russian astronomer Yuri Wassiljewitsch Batrakow (1926–2013), who was the deputy director of the Institute for Theoretical Astronomy in Saint Petersburg . He was editor-in-chief of the Ehfemeridy Malykh Planet , after which the asteroid (5001) EMP is named. After joining the Institute for Theoretical Astronomy, he researched celestial mechanics and the rings of Saturn . From 1958 he dealt with the orbits of artificial satellites and worked with Vitalij Fjodorowitsch Proskurin , after whom the asteroid (2372) Proskurin is named. From 1985 to 1988 he was Vice President of the 20th Commission of the International Astronomical Union (Positions and Motions of Small Planets, Comets and Satellites).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lutz D. Schmadel : Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition. Ed .: Lutz D. Schmadel. 5th edition. Springer Verlag , Berlin , Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 978-3-540-29925-7 , pp.  186 (English, 992 pp., Link.springer.com [ONLINE; accessed on September 7, 2019] Original title: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . First edition: Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1992): “1978 SZ 2 . Discovered 1978 Sept. 26 by LV Zhuravleva at Nauchnyj. "
predecessor asteroid successor
(2701) Kherson numbering (2703) Rodari